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Senior Frontend Engineer (Discovery Applications), React
Scribd, Inc.
Washington · Hybrid Full-time Mid Level $146k – $228k/yr 1mo ago
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Requirements
- 3–5 years building and shipping customer-facing frontend applications with React and TypeScript
- Strong grasp of modern frontend fundamentals: state management, component architecture, accessibility, testing, and UI quality
- Experience integrating frontends with APIs (REST/GraphQL) and comfort working in a Rails-backed product environment
- Ability to build high-quality interactive experiences (including real-time/streaming UI patterns) with attention to UX polish
- Strong understanding of web performance (profiling, bundling, rendering, caching) and a track record of improving it in production
- Comfortable working in a codebase with shared patterns (monorepos, shared UI libraries, or platform constraints) and collaborating across teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication; thrives in a remote, documentation-driven culture
- Highly collaborative: partners closely with product, design, and backend to deliver end-to-end features
Responsibilities
- Full-cycle software development will be your primary function.
- advise on others' technical design
- review code
- participate in interviews
- mentor less experienced engineers
- contribute to the code strategy, architecture, implementation, delivery, and operation of systems, end-to-end
- consider testability, upgradeability, scalability, and observability throughout the development process
Benefits
flexible work modelhealth coveragedental coveragevision coveragemental health supportdisability coveragepaid time offvacationsick timeholidayswinter breakvolunteer timesabbaticalspaid parental leavefamily support benefitsretirement matchingemployee equitylearning and development programsprofessional growth opportunitieswellness stipendshome office stipendsComplimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of productsEnterprise access to leading AI tools
Skills
APIAccessibilityAWS LambdaCachingComponent architectureDockerGenerative AIGraphQLJavaScriptLLMMachine LearningNext.jsObservabilityPerformancePostgreSQLPrompt engineeringReactRESTScalabilityState managementStreaming UITestingTypeScriptUI qualityUX polish
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